"Zheng Chengmian has great ambitions but little talent. Now that a quarter of the Yun Nation's land has been seized by the barbarians, he is still rebuking dissidents in the imperial court, hindering the western army, and cutting off their reinforcements. Nearly a hundred people are still under the iron hooves of the barbarians. He is simply incompetent!
This time, the barbarians are menacing and completely different from the past.
The 500,000 troops of Great Xia have already deployed at the southern front and are fighting with the barbarian general Hong Wu. However, the 70,000 barbarian soldiers in the Yun Nation have no intention of retreating. Can't they see their purpose?
The barbarians want to destroy the Yun Nation this time!
However, Zheng Chengmian is still wishful thinking that they will retreat on their own!
If the Yun Nation is destroyed, you and I will both be doomed!
Tomorrow, my teacher will depart for Wang Jing and fight with his life. My teacher has already contacted more than ten officials who have returned to their hometown to go to the capital together. Even if he has to knock his head against a drum, he must let His Majesty know how rotten the situation is!
If Zheng Chengmian is allowed to do as he pleases, the destruction of the nation is imminent!
Although I'm just a scholar, I'm willing to follow Teacher! What do you think? "
In the tavern, a scholar sat at a table and spoke passionately. His young face was slightly flushed due to his hot blood.
"I'm not talented, but I'm also willing to follow Teacher Zhengshan!" A scholar opposite him immediately cupped his hands.
"Let's go together! I'd rather die than wait here to be trampled by the barbarians! "the others said passionately.
The scholarly spirit was vividly written on the few of them.
"Good!" A burly man at the table next to them slammed the table and cheered. "Everyone, although I can't go, I admire all of you. This pot of wine is a toast to all of you."
As soon as he said this, many people around him followed suit, which immediately made the scholars excited. "As long as the Yun Nation still has hot-blooded men like you, the Yun Nation will win!"
After finishing the wine, the burly man asked a few more details, such as whether the guards were safe and who else Teacher Zhengshan, who was famous in Jiang City, had invited. He then praised them profusely.
After a while, he went downstairs and circled around the city twice before entering a remote courtyard. He recounted everything that happened in the restaurant in full detail, "Sir, what do you think?"
In front of him was a middle-aged man in his 40s. He had a broad forehead and looked like a typical member of the Jing Tribe. However, he didn't look much different from the people of the Yun Nation. No one would be able to recognize him if he wore a bamboo hat.
"Although the higher-ups didn't say it, judging from the current situation, I'm afraid that the Yun Nation is really going to be destroyed.
There's an Earth Wheel expert among their guards. It seems like I have to deal with them personally. Tomorrow, keep an eye on their departure time and route, then kill them. Don't let them go to Wang Capital. "
After the burly man left, the middle-aged man wrote another letter and sent it out on horseback.
The next day, a group of carriages, horses, and a dozen or so scholars left Dongcheng.
However, at noon the next day, someone found their corpses a hundred miles away.
When the news came back, everyone in Rivertown was shocked. Zheng Chengmian actually had so many eyes and ears. They had just set off and were intercepted by his men.
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"Well done!" Ren Baqian was quite happy to receive the news from the northeast. He then returned to the palace and handed the paper to the empress, who was reading comics. "Those people did a good job. Although they acted on their own, I still want to praise them."
"The value of incorporating these people has already been realized. With such a group of people, many things have become much easier. If they awaken the Yun Nation, it will be a little troublesome. We have only occupied a quarter of the territory. If the Yun Nation mobilizes the whole nation, our casualties will be much higher.
Although this will happen sooner or later, with more and more cities falling, it will be too late by the time they react. You can't kill someone with two fingers! "
The empress stretched out two fingers and gestured in front of her. "I think they can!"
Ren Baqian spread out his hands and laughed. "Well, Your Majesty is right. However, the strength of two fingers isn't as strong as a fist. "
The empress retracted her fingers and said faintly, "I understand what you mean. These people have done a good job. I'm clear about rewards and punishments, and I will give them the rewards they deserve. "
"With Your Majesty's words, they won't be risking their lives and working hard in the Yun Nation." Ren Baqian picked up a fruit from beside the empress's couch and put it in his mouth.
It was already June, and it was the rainy season. The occasional rainstorm didn't reduce the heat in Lan City, but made it even more stuffy.
After the train was shown to the court, everything was going on in an orderly manner.
The students at the academy were listening to the class while improving the train.
Ren Baqian had completely handed over these tasks to them. Even though their progress was slow, their gains were still huge.
In addition, the other thing they needed to do was to develop a thermal generator under Ren Baqian's guidance from time to time.
In fact, the principle of a thermal generator wasn't complicated, and it was easy to achieve initial results. The more important thing was to improve the conversion efficiency and the degree of stability.
With the example of the train, many students were quite happy and plunged into the research of the generator.
This research, in turn, prompted them to take the initiative to learn. They flipped through the books in the library, and every little bit of progress made them extremely excited.
At present, the students at the academy and the outside world had become two completely different circles. They had become an isolated tower.
The things that the students at the academy played with were completely unknown to the people outside.
They were no longer interested in the things that the people outside played with.
In front of them was a brand new world full of unknowns, and every once in a while, they would discover something new in this world. The more they knew, the more problems they would encounter, and the more problems they would solve. These new problems and gains would make them even more excited to continue climbing the mountain.
The sense of accomplishment and excitement, as well as the sense of identity that came from working together, was something that nothing else could give them. Even Tong Lan had become one with the other students, even though she still had that arrogant look on her face.
However, there were also exceptions in the academy. For example, Qing Lian was obsessed with mathematics and couldn't extricate herself from it. Every day, she would hold books on algebra and geometry without letting go of them for even a moment.
Faced with all kinds of questions from Qing Lian every day, Ren Baqian was forced to pick up the mathematics that he had returned to the teacher long ago.
On the other hand, with the maturity of the high-yield crops brought by Ren Baqian, the harvest of thousands of kilograms per mu had already made Lan City and the surrounding cities rich in food. New crops such as pumpkins and potatoes began to appear in the market in large quantities and were accepted by the people.
These high-yield crops and canned fish, which had been increasing in production, had greatly relieved the pressure brought about by Dayao's repeated conscription over the past year.
The empress also took this opportunity to mobilize more auxiliary troops from more cities to the Yun Nation.
On the one hand, they had to transport the plundered goods, and on the other hand, they had to manage the prisoners of war and dig the three iron mines that they had just obtained.
Now that Zi Donglai was plundering money, food, and resources from the Yun Nation, a large number of prisoners couldn't be sent back to Dayao in time and could only be guarded or killed on the spot.
As for the war with the Chen Nation and Great Xia, due to the arrival of the rainy season, the bowstrings and crossbows began to lose their elasticity due to the moisture, and the attacks from both directions slowed down for a while.
In other words, the originally loud thunder but little rain gradually began to develop into a situation where they were just bystanders.
For this reason, Ren Baqian had no choice but to give Su Qing another batch of stink bombs to remind everyone in Great Xia.
For Ren Baqian, the most important thing was that he was getting closer to breaking through the last visualization of [Ruyi Visualization], the [Visualization of Metal].
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